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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Troubled Waters: Five SFF Works About Rivers
Date: 17 Jan 2025 16:33:08 GMT
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In article <vmdv8p$42qe$1@dont-email.me>,
Dimensional Traveler  <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>On 1/17/2025 7:50 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>> In article <m2ikqde9q3.fsf@kelutral.omcl.org>,
>> Steve Coltrin  <spcoltri@omcl.org> wrote:
>>> begin  fnord
>>> jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) writes:
>>>
>>> [Riverworld]
>>>
>>>> My memory is that each new volume was a bit more meh than the one
>>>> before.
>>>
>>> It's pretty much a geometric series converging on "not as bad as Chalker
>>> at his worst... quite".
>> 
>> It's like Lost, in that the questions were far more interesting than the
>> answers.
>> 
>The producers of 'Lost' never HAD any answers, they just threw shit at 
>the viewers with no intention of providing answers.
>

I didn't see "Lost" so I have no opinion about that, but in Riverworld,
we were explicitly told things which were retconned to be false.  I very
rarely like that.
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